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urer’s receipt for the initiation fee and the current year’s dues has been obtained.” 
That the words “ one dollar,” in Section 1 of Article V, be stricken out, and 
in its place the words, “ two dollars ” be inserted. 
After Dr. Lamb, of Poughkeepsie, had been appointed essayist for the next 
meeting, a vote to adjourn was carried. 
W. H. Pendrt, D.Y.S., Secretary. 
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Vivisection Not Allowed. —Mr. John Jay Knox, President 
of the Anti-Vivisection Society, New York, sends the following 
letter to the press for publication: “ I desire to call your 
attention, and the attention of all human brutes of the Pasteur 
school, who propose torturing rabbits by the thousand, to the 
anti-vivisection laws of this State and New Jersey. Dr. Billings 
proposes to kill 5,0l>0 rabbits by slow fever. If he kills even 
one in this State or New Jersey, he will be prosecuted and 
punished to the full extent of the law by this society.” 
Contagious Pleuro-Pneumonia. —The January number of 
the National Live Stock Journal gives an account of the 
slaughter of a dairy herd, near Gravesend, England, that were 
infected with pleuro-pneumonia. They were killed at the 
instance of the local authority of Kent. Thirty cattle apparently 
healthy, were slaughtered to “clear out” the dairy; about as 
many more having been slaughtered—one, two or more at a 
time—at irregular intervals, but only such animals as were visibly 
suffering from the disease. Out of the thirty animals that 
appeared in sound health, but which had been in contact with 
former diseased animals of the herd, twelve showed on post 
mortem examination, characteristic signs of pleuro-pneumonia, 
from incipient to more advanced stages of the disease. All 
these cattle were capable of propagating infection. They would 
inevitably very soon have showed marked symptoms of the 
disease. 
The weekly edition of the same journal, January 5, 1886, in 
commenting on the above facts, adds: “ that this case affords 
